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  1. Dig deep! This farmer and activist has some radical ideas

    BOOK REVIEW | "Street Farm" author Michael Ableman is working to grow farmers in the city You might flip through this attractive volume in a bookstore. It has lots of colorful, glossy photos of beaming people of varying ethnicities tending lettu ...

    21 Sep 2017 - Susan Storer Clark

  2. Codifying injustice with algorithms

    BOOK REVIEW | “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy,” by Cathy O’Neil If you’ve been denied job after job, even some of those entry-level, low-wage positions, Cathy O’Neil can explain. If the rates you’re ...

    1 Sep 2017 - Megan Wildhood

  3. Why you’re anxious, angry, depressed – and how to fix it

    BOOK REVIEW | “Unf#ck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-outs, and Triggers” by Faith G. Harper Faith G. Harper is an experienced mental health provider. She is a trauma-informed therapist; a licensed clinician with ce ...

    25 Aug 2017 - Meredith Mathis

  4. ‘Thinking Machines’ warns of time when machines do everything

    BOOK REVIEW | 'Thinking Machines' by Luke Dormehl This time is different. In the six decades since the first colloquium on artificial intelligence (AI) at Dartmouth College, periodic predictions about changes implied by AI often proved to be ent ...

    19 Jul 2017 - Joe Martin

  5. Global lessons from Latin America’s left

    BOOK REVIEW | ‘The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left,’ by Jeffery Webber In the early 2000s, South America was a beacon of hope for developing nations. In country after country ...

    30 Jun 2017 - Mike Wold

  6. For Negin Farsad, laughter is the best defense

    BOOK REVIEW | 'How to Make White People Laugh' uses comedy to tackle social justice issues It may be possible to change the world one joke at a time. At least, that’s the thrust of Iranian-American comic Negin Farsad's May 24 release, a boo ...

    19 May 2017 - Mike Wold

  7. Robert Hoge writes of a beautiful life lived ugly

    BOOK REVIEW | “Ugly: My Memoir,” by Robert Hoge He was born ugly. How ugly was he? Maybe that sounds like the setup to a joke, but the punch line isn’t funny. He was so ugly his mother wanted to abandon him in the hospital. She said to his father, “Perhap ...

    27 Apr 2017 - Susan Storer Clark

  8. 'Writing to Save a Life': The Louis Till file

    John Edgar Wideman’s new book explores the injustice delivered to Emmett Till’s father The tragic story of Emmett Till still shocks the conscience of our nation. It was the summer of 1955. Fourteen years of age, Emmett was a good natured black adolescent ...

    20 Apr 2017 - Joe Martin

  9. 2 books that inspire taking action, creating change

    Book Review: “Demand the Impossible! A Radical Manifesto” by Bill Ayers and “Struggling for the Soul of Our Country” by Preston Browning Jr. It’s the stuff of daily news. Christian Parenti, author of 2011’s “Tropic of Chaos,” refers to the “catastrophic c ...

    16 Feb 2017 - Joe Martin

  10. A toolkit for pushing back against ageism

    BOOK REVIEW | ‘This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism,’ by Ashton Applewhite The oldest baby boomers turned 71 in 2016. Since boomers have a reputation for being involved with social movements, it’s not at all surprising, as they hit retirement age, ...

    26 Jan 2017 - Mike Wold

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